I believe HyperTerminal Personal Edition (free) solves that bug. But that's still really just downloading yet another application.

I have good news!!!! Its seems like the player has come back to life!!!! One thing though. After I pasted the mount -n /dev command the prompt just disapeared. How long should wait? It seems like its finished since the player displays end of playlist. It doesn't responf to control^c. How should I enter the last two commands? swap off and exit?

Just reboot.

Ok rebooted and exited shell prompt. Player now responds to buttons and it actually loads the software.

I was going to go ahead and load a few songs just to make sure all was well but it errored out when it tried to rebuild the database. I closed emplode. Should I run the 2.01 final once more? Do you think running the builder image will correct the database error in emplode?
One note...it still seems to run continuesly when applying power, no change in whine until power off. Steady hummm.... My friends Empeg is quiet until you hear the songs change.
I really appreciate you're devotion in helping me repair my Empeg.

EDIT: Ran Emplode once more with ethernet cbl and same results. Downloading failed while rebuilding database.
Error 0xc0041002

0xC0041002 is "No such file or directory" (Player error).

Did you try a manual database rebuild?

Ok, I just followed the link to rebuilding the database and its all the same. File or directory not found on each of those commands. After I enter exit....how long should I wait 'while it rebuilds the database'? Reason is it seems to be working (no prompt) but the player is 'off' and no sound coming from the hard drives. But after 10 minutes (of nothing happening) I hit control^c and it says something about SIGNIT or user interuption. Then it displays the info I posted earlier. I feel like I;m stopping the process but nothing seems to be happening.

Not sure if your aware but I deleted all the music in an earlier post. So I have no music just an empty playlist.

Builder Image here I come.....

Yes, the player now responds to all button presses including all menus and loads the software. I tried loading songs thru emplode but it errors out when trying to rebuild the databases. The player has v2.01 final (dev) firmware and I was using the v2.0 beta 13 version of Emplode which is the one currently hosted on Empeg. I'm not aware of the 2.01 version of Emplode. Other than the database malfunction I have all controls over the player. Just won't allow me to load songs because of the database errors.

OK. It's just that all these places here on the BBS and in the FAQ talk about using version 2.0 final.

Update: No change, still has a problem with rebuilding the databases when using emplode. Since I don't have a lot of spare time right now I'm going to go ahead and send it to Stuart over at Eutronix and have them finish it off.

Just want to thank the EmpegBBS crew for all their support in helping me with my player. I appreciate all the support. Thanks Guys!!!

great thread my player just did this on thursday with 3a11.

If it happens with an alpha version of the software, I wouldn't necessarily panic and assume your player is having problems. It might just be a bug in the alpha.

Unless you need the alpha software for a specific reason, (such as OGG or FLAC) I'd recommend sticking to 2.0 final.

yeah i was just trying out the ogg and flac support. it worked quite well for the last 2 months. I downgraded back to 2.01 after it totally locked up on me on thursday. The downgrade went good and it was back fully functional. I then tried reupgrading to 3.11a but it went back to its locked up nature. I'll tinker with it a bit more when I get a day off.

just glad i stumbled accross this thread.